Russian-made ammunition found in al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's house

Russian-made ammunition has been found in al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's high-walled compound in Abbottabad, a media report said on Friday.

The inquiry commission probing the US commando raid that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden on May 02 last year has learnt that Russian-made ammunition was found in the compound.

The ammunition was in a cupboard, sources told Dawn.

One casing of a used bullet was found.

The US operation was carried out without tipping off the Pakistani military, straining ties between Islamabad and Washington.

Osama Bin Laden hid future terror attack codes in Bible?

Two copies of the Bible found at Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan may contain coded clues to future terror attacks by al Qaeda, British media on Wednesday quoted Pakistani ISI officials as saying.

The books had been concealed at the house of the slain al Qaeda chief in Abbottabad, where he was shot by US Navy Seals last May.

They may contain coded clues to future terror attacks, the Sun tabloid reported.

The concealed Christian holy books were unearthed by demolition crews sent in to bring down the three-storeyed mansion to the ground.

Several pages of the English-print editions had been folded over and particular texts marked, it said.

Also members of Pakistan's ISI security service were examining the volumes in a bid to find out more.

Now Pakistani intelligence officials suspect a coded pattern for past and future al Qaeda attacks may be hidden within the Bibles' pages.

Another theory is that the terror chief may have been seeking out Christian texts to justify his actions.

Two cunningly-concealed working radio sets were also uncovered at the building, yards from a Pakistani army barracks.

"We had already cleared the compound before demolition but found two copies of the Bible and two radio sets. The Bibles were in English and we cannot be sure why they were there.

These copies were found as we checked the rooms for the final time before demolishing the building," an ISI commanding officer among those who oversaw the demolition of the Bin Laden compound was quoted by the tabloid as saying.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik when asked about the items discovered from Osama's hideout, said, "The belongings of Osama Bin Laden will not be handed to anyone. We will keep them and maybe burn them later when they are of no use."

"If there is a Bible there, it will be sent to a library or a church," he added.

US Defence Secretary Panetta.: Pakistan knew Osama bin Laden hideout

 In a bid to calm tensions with Pakistan, the Pentagon said Washington still believes that Pakistani officials were unaware about Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad.

Last week, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said that he still believed someone in authority in Pakistan knew that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad.

The Dawn quoted Pentagon Press Secretary George Little as saying that the interview which quoted Panetta as stating his belief was old.

“Secretary Panetta made clear his belief — which other senior US officials have also expressed — that Osama bin Laden had some kind of support network within Pakistan,” Little said.

“The secretary indicated in the same interview that he had seen no evidence that bin Laden was supported by the Pakistani government or that senior Pakistani officials knew he was hiding in the Abbottabad compound. Since the bin Laden operation, Secretary Panetta and his colleagues in the government have been working hard to improve US-Pakistani relations.”

In a TV interview which was to be aired on Sunday, Panetta said, "I personally have always felt that somebody must have had some sense of what was happening at this compound. Don't forget, this compound had 18-foot walls... It was the largest compound in the area.”

"So you would have thought that somebody would have asked the question, 'What the hell's going on there?'," Panetta told.

He, however, added that he has no proof Pakistan knew it was Osama bin Laden.

The US Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden on May 02 in a raid on a compound in Abbottabad and later buried him at sea.